{"id":47005,"date":"2016-08-06T14:49:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T14:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47005"},"modified":"2017-03-30T01:04:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T01:04:33","slug":"black-lotus-a-womans-search-for-racial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47005","title":{"rendered":"Black Lotus: A Woman&#8217;s Search for Racial Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.simonandschuster.com\/Black-Lotus\/Sil-Lai-Abrams\/9781451688467\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Black Lotus: A Woman&#8217;s Search for Racial Identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imprints.simonandschuster.biz\/gallery-books\" target=\"_blank\">Gallery Books<\/a> (an Imprint of Simon &amp; Schuster)<br \/>\nAugust 2016<br \/>\n368 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9781451688467<br \/>\neBook ISBN: 9781451688481<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiaprocess.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sil Lai Abrams<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.simonandschuster.com\/Black-Lotus\/Sil-Lai-Abrams\/9781451688467\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net\/book_images\/onix\/cvr9781451688467\/black-lotus-9781451688467_hr.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The unique and beautifully written story of one multiracial woman\u2019s journey of acceptance and identity that tackles the fraught topic of race in America.<\/p>\n<p>Sil Lai Abrams always knew she was different, with darker skin and curlier hair than her siblings. But when the man who she thought was her dad told her the truth\u2014that her father was actually black\u2014her whole world was turned upside down.<\/p>\n<p>Raised primarily in the Caucasian community of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Winter_Park,_Florida\" target=\"_blank\">Winter Park, Florida<\/a>, Abrams was forced to re-examine who she really was and struggle with her Caucasian, African American, and Chinese identities. In her remarkable memoir, she shares this journey and how it speaks to a larger question: Why does race matter?<\/p>\n<p><em>Black Lotus<\/em> is a story of acceptance and identity but it is also a dialogue on the complex topic of race in this country by an award-winning writer and inspirational speaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unique and beautifully written story of one multiracial woman\u2019s journey of acceptance and identity that tackles the fraught topic of race in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,395,11,8,17,20],"tags":[23789,23790,10517],"class_list":["post-47005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-gallery-books","tag-sil-lai-abrams","tag-simon-schuster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52415,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47005\/revisions\/52415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}